Geography 3431A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cumulative Incidence, Reductionism, Middle Ages
17 Mar 2020
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Chapter 2: explaining geographies of health gatrell and elliott. No single correct philosophical stance or mode of explanation. Relies on accurate measurement and recording for statistical regularities and. Looking for order in a set or spatial patterning in a set of data associations. Characteristics of a positivist or naturalistic approach to investigation. Seek to uncover causes in health context. Concerns is usually to detect areal pattern or to model a way in which disease incidence varies spatially. Location and spatial arrangement matter but place is incidental. Survey work or work in the laboratory where they look for causes and physiological abnormalities. What matters is to investigate specific disease that have one or more specific causes. Individual is a rather anonymous person whose features can be ticked off a check-list. Critics argue this is a reductionist approach person is reduced down to a collection of body parts and behaviours.
